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London is not only the driest city, but the hottest too

Meanwhile Durham came in at a very respectable 52nd - or 18th driest city.

When Schulze-Makuch and his collaborators went to the Atacama for the first time in 2015 to study how organisms survive in the soil of Earth's driest environment, the craziest of things happened.

As regards rainfall, the Athalassa station recorded only 9.3 mm cumulative rainfall which makes February 2016 the driest February for this station for the last 30 years.

The previous driest September on record for Britain was 1959 with 23.8mm of rain.

Here it is the driest since 1986 and the second-driest ever.

Tyree Wilde, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Portland, said Salem, McMinnville and Hillsboro also are on track for the driest first quarter on record.

Mohammad Salam Al Shamsi, an Emirati farmer, said this has to be one of the driest winters.

2011 - the driest year in Texas history - delivered a huge blow to cattle ranchers.

Summary: The driest spring on record has led to a state of drought being declared in some parts of the country.

RIVER levels have dropped to very low levels after the two warmest, driest months in recent years, said environment bosses last night.

- Above average temperatures, drought in southern Europe Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures disrupted road, rail and air transport in many parts of northern Europe on Wednesday while the Mediterranean island of Cyprus suffered in the heat after its driest November in more than a century.

It was the first real rain of the winter, which had been described as the driest since 1943 by weather experts.

It's one of many unusual adaptations that animals make to survive in some of the hottest, driest places on Earth.

Field-measured wettest and driest profiles were compared with laboratory measurements of soil moisture content at -15 bar (401 observations) and -0.33 bar (282 observations).